About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

July 10......

July 10 is the 191st (192nd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Poverty "I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary." — Jules Feiffer

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Ineptitude "I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." — Oliver North, Reagan administration official in his Iran-Contra testimony before Congress

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Give Bill a second term, and Al Gore and I will be turned loose to do what we really want to do." — Hillary Clinton, speaking at a 1996 Democratic fund-raiser

Thought for the day: "In fashion be a reed in the wind, In principles be a rock in the stream."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1886 - The steamboat Reutan, returning from Milwaukee, runs aground on a sand bar just offshore of the Chicago waterfront in Lake Michigan, causing the sand bar to sandbar to grow, marshland to fill it in, and new land to be formed at the end of E. Superior St. The steamboat's captain proclaims the area an 186-acre free district open to the poor, homeless, tramps, etc. The "Streeterville" territory is successfully defended against Chicago cops and developers for over 25 years in the "District of Lake Michigan." The parties fought their war both in the courts and on the land. Hundreds of police officers were sent to Streeterville, many people were injured, and at least one was killed. Authorities repeatedly evicted the Streeters from their shanties in the District with no lasting effect until, finally, they burned down Cap. Streeter's shanty in 1918.

● 1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

● 1892 - 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)

● 1900 - ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.

● 1917 - Jerome Deportation, Arizona. Precursor to the better-documented Bisbee Deportation two days later. At 4 AM over 200 men armed with rifles, pick handles, and "billies" swarmed over and into any place where the Wobblies (IWWs) might bed down; about 135 men were rounded up. Each man received a "trial"; 75 were loaded into cattle cars and "deported" into the Sonoran desert. One man said he was leaving behind four children, the youngest of whom was only four days old. He was told that he had had his chance and that it was "too late." The vigilantes and their supporters (none of whom, oddly, seemed to be fighting in Europe) justified the deportation as a legitimate act of a community protecting itself from traitors, spies, and anarchists who were determined to undermine the war effort.

● 1918 - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established

● 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was hand delivered to the U.S. Senate by President Wilson.

● 1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.

● 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. Clarence Darrow for the defense. William Jennings Bryan will testify for the prosecution.

● 1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.

● 1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.

● 1940 - During World War II, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. By late October, Britain managed to repel the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses.

● 1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established.

● 1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.

● 1943 - Arthur Ashe, the first African-American inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was born. He had won 33 career titles.

● 1943 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign with the invasion of Sicily by U.S. and British forces.

● 1946 - Birth of Stuart Christie, Scottish international revolutionary militant. Co-founder, with Albert Meltzer, of the prison support movement Anarchist Black Cross. In Aug. 1964, arrested with explosives under his kilt trying to cross into Spain to assassinate the dictator Franco.

● 1947 - 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China

● 1962 - Fred Baldasare swam the English Channel underwater. It was 42 miles and took 18 hours.

● 1962 - Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy choose to go to jail for their part in the December demonstrations in Albany, Ga.

● 1962 - The Telstar Communications satellite was launched. The satellite relayed TV and telephone signals between Europe and the U.S.

● 1962 - U.S. government rejects Soviet proposal of complete and general disarmament. {Of course the stated reason was, "we can't trust the Russians," no mention is made of the loss of profits for the military-industrial complex.}

● 1966 - Martin Luther King, Jr. begins a Chicago campaign for fair housing -- his first foray into a northern city for desegregation activities.

● 1966 - Orbiter 1 launched to Moon

● 1967 - New Zealand adopts decimal currency.

● 1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

● 1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France

● 1969 - Chilean Association of Librarians created

● 1970 - A resolution by the Northern California-Western Nevada District Council of the Japanese-American Citizen's Leauge calls for reparations for the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. It proposed that the JACL seek a bill in Congress awarding individual compensation on a per diem basis, tax-free.

● 1970 - Home of a retired policeman in Stoke Newington, England firebombed.

● 1971 - First meeting of National Women's Political Caucus.

● 1972 - A herd of elephants, enraged by a searing heat wave, go berserk in India's Chandka Forest, stampeding through five villages. The villages were devastated and 24 people killed.

● 1976 - Four UK and US mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

● 1976 - KKK members near Georgetown, Illinois, gather for a good old-fashioned cross burning. The meeting got off on the wrong foot, starting an hour late. They went to plant their cross only to find that it was too heavy to move. It took the white robed merrymakers three hours to chop the cross down to a portable size. Then they planted it, only to find it would not light. Finally they gave up and went home.

● 1984 - Acting Pres. Reagan claims that his environmental record is "one of the best kept secrets" of his Presidency. When a reporter asks where former EPA head Anne Burford fits in that record, press secretary Larry Speakes steps forward and orders the lights turned off. Reagan, believed by many to be the most powerful man on the planet, stands behind his aide, saying, "My guardian says I can't talk." And so the secret was kept.

● 1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. {He failed to give his CIA handlers their percentage.}

● 1992 - In New York, a jury found Pan Am responsible for allowing a terrorist to destroy Flight 103 in 1988, killing 270 people.

● 1995 - Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was freed after nearly six years of house arrest in Yangon, Myanmar.

● 1996 - Girl survives murder of mother and sister; The battered bodies of Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan are found near their home in Kent.

● 1997 - NATO forces captured one Serb war crimes suspect and killed another in a warning to Bosnia's most wanted.

● 1997 - Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported a theory that all humanity descended from an "African Eve" 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

● 1997 - Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

● 1998 - Argentinean Soledad dies, hanged herself in Benevagienna, Italy, where she was living under house arrest in the community "Sotto i ponti." The 22- year-old anarchist, in Italy since Sept. 1997, had been accused of membership in an armed group called "Lupi Grigi" (Gray Wolves) which had claimed responsibility for one of a number of sabotages against the High Speed Train Project (TAV) in Val Susa. There had been a dozen such attacks, almost all prior to her arrival, but she had been arrested in March. Charges against a second defendant were dropped after the jail suicide of the third, Edoardo Massari.

● 1998 - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

● 1998 - The U.S. military delivered the remains of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie to his family in St. Louis. He had been placed in Arlington Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown in 1984. His identity had been confirmed with DNA tests.

● 1998 - The World Bank approved a $700 million loan to Thailand.

● 1999 - The heads of six African nations that had troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a cease-fire agreement that would end the civil war in that nation.

● 2000 - UK tidal wave of web users; One in four British homes is now using the internet according to figures released by the government.

● 2000 - A woman was sentenced to nine years in prison for allowing three men to have sex with her 13-year-old daughter. The men involved were sentenced from six to seven years in prison.

● 2000 - Jean-Claude Van Damme was given three years probation and fined $1,200 for drunk driving and driving without a license. Van Damme had been arrested after he crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a restaurant on September 23, 1999.

● 2000 - Justin Pierce commited suicide the day before the premiere of his last movie "Pigeonholed."

● 2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Alexander● St. Amalberga, virgin (died 690)● St. Anthony Pechersky● Martyrs of Damascus● St. Etto, bishop, confessor● St. Felicitas of Rome, martyr● St. Kanute IV, King of Denmark, martyr● St. Lantfrid● St. Leontius● St. Maclovius, bishop of St.-Malo, confessor● St. Maria Amandina of Schakkebroek and Companions (died 1900)● St. Pascharius● St. Peter of Perugia● St. Peter Tu● Sts. Rufina and Secunda, martyrs● The Seven Brothers (Sts. Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martialis), martyrs● St. Theodosius Pechersky● St. Witger of Hamme● Bl. Emmanuel Ruiz

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 28 (Civil Date: July 10)● Saints Sergius and Herman, abbots of Valaam.● Translation of the Relics of the Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus and John.● St. Paul the Physician of Corinth.● St. Xenophon, abbot of Robeika (Novgorod).

● Greek Calendar:● Martyr Pappias.● Martyr Macedonius.● St. Vulkian, monk, and St. Moses the Anchorite.● Two children crucified for Christ.● Hieromartyr Donatus of Libya.● Three Martyrs of Galatia.● 70 Martyrs of Scythopolis.● St. Magnus, monk who reposed while praying to the Lord.● Blessed Sergius the Magistrate, founder of the Monastery of the Mother of God called Nikitiatus in Nicomedia.● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Three Hands".

● Buddhist-Burma: Beginning of Buddhist Fast

● Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba.

● Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed.

● Albania : Army Day

● Bahamas : Independence Day (1973)

● Mauritania - Armed Forces Day.

● Wyoming : Statehood Day (1890)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"● South Africa : Family Day - ( Monday )● Swaziland : Reed Dance Day - ( Monday )

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